Background
Description: OpenSS7 Background.
Listed below are some of the significant turning points for OpenSS7.
These are just the highlights. As you can see we have been
doing this for a number of years now...
- October 2014
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Maintaining CVS archive access has become problematic and outdated, so
source code archives were moved to
GitHub. You can also find
statistics on Open HUB.
- October 2008
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Difficulties with the dependencies between subpackages of kernel packages
has required that we combine all of the packages into the master package.
This is a major reorganization of the code.
- August 2006
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Linux Fast-STREAMS is fully production grade and we will soon drop support
for LiS altogether. Linux Fast-STREAMS has already been fielded in a number
of commercial production systems.
- March 2004
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- June 2003
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Difficulties with the LiS STREAMS package and support for various Linux
kernels led OpenSS7 to develop a completely new STREAMS
implementation for Linux called Linux Fast-STREAMS.
- July 2002
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OpenSS7 goes North! Perhap not suprisingly, costs in Canada's Great White
North are much less than the costs in bussling downtown Plano, TX. In a
continuing effort to keep costs down and to continue providing opensource
SS7 and SIGTRAN stacks to the telecommunications industry, OpenSS7 has cut
its costs to the bone.
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As an extra bonus, we now control our own webservers (rather than using a
web host), so we can provide a number of fancy features on the
website that were not available before: like a bunch of new mailing list,
cvsweb access to the live CVS archive, GNATS bug reporting, man2html browsing,
searches courtesy of htdig, and some other CGI enabled features.
- April 2001
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OpenSS7 goes commercial. What does this mean to the opensource nature of
OpenSS7? Nothing, really. OpenSS7 Corporation was formed to provide
funding for OpenSS7 so that it could continue to
thrive in this period of economic downturn in telecommunications.
- January 2001
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Recent interest in the package has been for providing SS7 support to all
manner of GSM, VoIP and softswitches. With this in mind, the new
architecture has been designed to accomodate SIGTRAN
protocols. (And then the bubble burst.)
- October 2000
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The design decision was made to move from a Linux native sockets/network
interface driver model to STREAMS using the LiS STREAMS package for Linux.
- September 2000
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A significant redesign was performed on the OpenSS7 stack. L2 drivers were
previously character device drivers but because network drivers in the Linux
kernel.
- December 1998
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Significant development started to ramp up on the OpenSS7 stack.
- June 1996
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The OpenSS7 SS7 stack was born as the `newss7' package, released under GPL.